Windows 10 Out of ideas what causing my BSOD errors...

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vanillabear007

Hello everybody,


So I’ve got a problem that persists for two years now, but as it didn’t get worse I could live with it. Now I’ve got time so I’m trying to figure out what the hell is going on with my PC.

The symptoms:

Rare BSOD errors, very unpredictable without any consistency. What I mean by that is it doesn’t matter if I play some game on ultra graphics (Project Cars, GTA 5, Watch Dogs) sometimes it crashes in the first 5 seconds or after 10 minutes or I play 2 hours without an issue. Sometimes I play 4 hours and when I’m back at the desktop it crashes immediately. But it is not connected to only gaming (although it is more frequent then), I might just browse in Chrome, or I’m working in the house and only Spotify is playing… There are times when it happens every other day, a couple of times a day and then nothing for a month.

Logs, memory dump, other debugging results:

Just to be clear before I did a windows clean install I’ve got all sorts of error messages when BSOD occurred, after that I get a lot fewer kinds. Running WhoCrashed on the dumps:


This was probably caused by the following module:ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x3F3EA0)

Bugcheck code: 0xD1 (0xFFFFF8027AD07CE7, 0xFF, 0xC4, 0xFFFFF8027AD07CE7)

Error:DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL


This was probably caused by the following module:ntkrnlmp.exe (nt!setjmpex+0x8279)

Bugcheck code: 0xD1 (0xFFFFF8027AD07CE7, 0xFF, 0xC4, 0xFFFFF8027AD07CE7)

Error:DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL


This was probably caused by the following module:ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x3F3EA0)

Bugcheck code: 0xD1 (0xFFFFF80280078DD7, 0xFF, 0xE4, 0xFFFFF80280078DD7)

Error:DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL


This was probably caused by the following module:ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x3F3EA0)

Bugcheck code: 0x7F (0x8, 0xFFFF8600321DCE50, 0x321C7D1F, 0xFFFFF8021151BF4C)

Error:UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP


This was probably caused by the following module:ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x3F3EA0)

Bugcheck code: 0x9C (0x80000001, 0xFFFFBF8058FF8B10, 0x0, 0x0)

Error:MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION


There were a couple of WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR as well, but haven’t saved the dumps from them.

The whole dumps uploaded to onedrive:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Am86NGE33yonbkDJn43uB5d3x4Q?e=1FscG0

PC specs:

Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Extreme4

CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR4 (2x8GB)

Graphics card: Gigabyte GTX 970 4GB

Power: FSP 650W Raider 80

SSD: Kingston 120GB SATA3

HDD: 1TB WD 3.5" Caviar Blue SATA3 (WD10EZEX)


More details in CPU-Z report: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Am86NGE33yoncyXFJGLOYYM1MMQ


Temperature and voltage data:

I’ve logged a couple of values with SpeedFan to see if there is anything suspicious before a crash, you can find them here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mupygfoMQROR7vnqZjYkEXh4mdbyN2_nn-H4XLQR9wQ/edit#gid=1426000315


I’ve started the logs right before I started playing F1 2018, and some 20 minutes later I’ve got a BSOD, I don’t see any anomalies.

Attempts to fix it:


  • First off, I’ve updated every driver, nothing changed


  • Moved my graphics card to different PCI slot and also moved around with the RAM sticks (tried every permutation, with one RAM, two RAMs in every slot)


  • Ran chkdisk, sfc /scannow all good


  • Windows was up-to-date


  • Updated the BIOS


After that I’ve realized that I need a to go deeper, so I’ve continued with these steps:


  • Made a completely clean install of Windows


  • Ran MemTest86, 4 passes, all tests (free version), each stick separately, no errors found


  • Removed the CMOS battery for 3 hours to reset BIOS


  • Checked both SSD and HDD with Crystal Disk Mark and both are in good condition


  • Ran Mark3D benchmarking, with no issues, no BSOD


  • Ran Prime95 torture test for 4 hours, with no problems
Other things might worth mentioning:

  • I’ve never overclocked anything


  • The PC is protected by Nod32 Internet Security from day 0


  • Switching parts wasn’t an option as I didn’t want to mess around with that during COVID


Soo… yes, this is it in a nutshell, I’m pretty much out of ideas so if anyone has any idea I would be grateful for some help here. Thank you.

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